Charles Darwin
The survival of the fittest

Charles Darwin is often credit with coining the phrase - "the survival of the fittest" - however such attribution is not really correct.

Darwin did write that:-

"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment."

and that:-

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection"

Darwin had tended to write about species being engaged in a competitive Struggle for Existence. This struggle being seen, by Darwin, as primarily a struggle for food to support growth, life, and the generation of young individuals to continue the species in question.
The actual term survival of the fittest however was actually attributed by Darwin himself to another source:-

"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient"

Slide Shows

Our Slide Shows summarise D-E-E-P Wisdoms about Human Existence
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